QA Lead

What it’s all about:
We are building a breakthrough weather engine, combining some heavy science with cutting edge software implementation. You’ll be participating in  this engineering effort, making sure that we connect all the dots from the core algorithms to the data management, to the system’s back and front end architecture. 

You would be responsible for:

• Creating test plans and guiding a small offshore QA team.
• Writing, maintaining and hands-on executing manual and automated test suitesReviewing functional requirements, design documents, and bug descriptions Ensuring that software meets product design and specificationsPerforming technical risk assessment and contributing to decisions related to release readiness and schedulesPerforming full quality assurance cycles for software releases in a fast-paced environment. This includes - but is not limited to: gathering specs, developing test plans, running automated and manual tests as needed, and analyzing test results

What it takes

• 5+ years of experience in manual and automated testing of web based SaaS platforms and RESTful API interfaces
• Excellent communication skills
• Understanding REST APIs Good working knowledge of automated test platforms such as Selenium Experience with Agile methodologies 

​Education 
 

• Bachelor's degree 

​Bonus points 
 

• Experience with JavaScript Python working knowledge
  Knowledge of Jasmine, Protractor or similar test libraries
• Knowledge of big data concepts
•  Computer Science/Software Engineering 
• Managerial experience